Book Mode
Opens the Books app, then prompts you to confirm setting orientation lock so the screen doesn’t rotate. When run from Mac, opens the app in fullscreen.
Open current book
Shows the most recently-active book you’ve been reading and opens it.
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Clean up book quote
Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.
Change Books Theme
Presents the various Themes in Books to choose from, then applies the setting of your choice.
Turn on continuous scroll
Activates the Books setting that allows you to read endlessly without turning pages.
Open a book from my library
Opens a specific book from your library, prompting you to pick which book.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20current%20book
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20current%20book
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open current book”
end tell
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Add note for parked car
Prompts you to enter a text note for your Parked Car spot to leave a reference for later.
Open Driving Focus
Opens to the general Focus settings page so you can customize Driving settings like Auto-Reply or the Turn On Automatically settings like When Connected to CarPlay or Activate With CarPlay.
Overlay logo
Takes a logo stored in Files, resizes it to 150px, and overlays it 200px away from the bottom right of another image.
Add messaging reminder
Prompts you to pick reminders, then a contact, then assigns those reminder to show up when you’re messaging that person.
Show the Shortcuts Archive on MacStories
Opens the Shortcuts Archive page on the MacStories website where the team hosts over 300 shortcuts freely available to download.
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